Doug Bergqvist moved from Stockholm to England as a child and played school-age football with Reading and Queens Park Rangers. He had a exceptionally short spell with Exeter City in 2013 before playing in Sweden, Norway, Poland and Latvia.

After leaving school, he joined Aldershot Town in 2009 where he made seven league appearances whilst also having loan spells at  Farnborough and Basingstoke Town. 

On leaving Aldershot in May 2013, he signed for Exeter City on 30 June only to be loaned to Welling United on 4 July when pre-season preparations had barely begun. Doug was never to return to St James Park and, after seven months at Welling, his loan was terminated so that he could return to Sweden to sign a a two-year contract with Östersunds FK. 

 During his five seasons at Östersunds, Doug won a Swedish Cup winners’ medal in 2017 and spent time on loan with Haugesand for whom he appeared in a Norwegian Cup final. He later played for Arka Gdynia (Poland) and Kalmar FF (Sweden) before a loan move to Chornomorets Odesa was cancelled because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Thereafter he played for Latvian clubs Riga and Auda, Degefors in Sweden and Czech side Karviná.